{"id":3428,"date":"2015-01-21T14:06:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T14:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plumrocket.com\/blog\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2021-10-01T11:05:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T11:05:52","slug":"new-seo-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/new-seo-requirements","title":{"rendered":"Mission Impossible? How to Survive in the New SEO Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEO has always been and, is likely to be an ever-changing industry. Only a few years ago, all you needed for a highly ranked website was a list of keywords and fresh content. Nowadays, you have to keep in mind smart link-building, social media signals, site speed, ever-changing Google algorithms,\u00a0 and, of course, the King \u2013 His Majesty <a href=\"\/blog\/what-to-do-with-content-2014\">Content<\/a>. It is difficult to manage all this, indeed, but difficult doesn\u2019t mean impossible.<\/p>\n<p>So, let\u2019s analyze what a site owner should pay special attention to let his site survive and flourish in the new SEO age.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest changes in the realm of SEO are very closely associated with the well-known <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Panda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Panda<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Penguin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Penguin<\/a> Google\u2019s search results ranking algorithms launched over the last years. Major changes have been introduced step-by-step starting with the first one in February 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, the new age of SEO implies the following aspects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evaluating User Experience<\/li>\n<li>Smart <a href=\"\/blog\/seo-tips-internal-linking\">Link-building<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Analyzing Social Media Signals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What does all this mean to an average site owner? Well , it means working hard to rank high in the search results. But, luckily, the game is worth the candle. And this is why.<\/p>\n<p><strong>User Experience. <\/strong>\u00a0Remember that except for being well designed and responsive, your website must provide direct answers to users\u2019 queries, meaning that you have no moral right to disappoint and frustrate visitors to your site with bad navigation, slow site speed and obsolete information. Users will leave and never return to you again. No need to say what lack of traffic means to an e-commerce entrepreneur. Make sure there are no above mentioned problems at your site, and give positive emotions to anyone visiting your site. \u00a0You will get many loyal customers who will start sharing, and bookmarking, including\u00a0 higher dwell time metrics\u00a0 and more return visits. In its turn, such user behavior is a powerful factor to your site\u2019s SEO<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smart Link-Building<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a huge difference between link-building now\u00a0and link-building some 3 years ago. After Google Penguin was launched on April 24 of 2012, all the \u00a0websites that relied on low-quality, automated link-building (like auto-approved blog commenting, forum posting, directory listing, etc.\u00a0) saw their rankings drop sharply down.<\/p>\n<p>Today, you should make complete content strategy working for you, to succeed. This includes relevant anchor text, linking to credible link-worthy content and having backlinks between powerful authorities in your industry. This is what search engines like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social \u00a0Media Signals include<\/strong> Facebook Likes and shares, <a href=\"\/blog\/twitter-for-website-promotion\">Twitter Retweets<\/a>,\u00a0 Google +1\u2032s and shares, LinkedIn shares, etc. By embedding social sharing buttons you can easily encourage users to grant more positive social signals for your site pages. Moreover, having a lot of social shares means increased traffic, which can mean more user activity for search spiders.<\/p>\n<p>To sum it up, we can see that Google&#8217;s efforts to tighten up the search engine results are primarily aimed at sites that have used bad SEO tactics in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The bad habits are also called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webopedia.com\/TERM\/B\/Black_Hat_SEO.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Black Hat SEO<\/a> techniques including keyword stuffing, doorway\u00a0pages, using invisible text,\u00a0adding unrelated keywords to the page content or even page swapping i.e. changing the webpage entirely after it has been ranked by search engines.<\/p>\n<p>To survive in the age of new SEO (also called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webopedia.com\/TERM\/W\/White_Hat_SEO.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">White Hat SEO<\/a>) you will have keep working on keyword analysis,\u00a0link building\u00a0and backlinking\u00a0as well as writing content for human readers for the reasons as explained above.<\/p>\n<p>Rebuilding good reputation will definitely take time. Some experts say, it can take up to sixth months to keep a site ranking high according to the new white hat algorithm. But be patient and in the long run your site will be resilient and unaffected by future Google updates.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEO has always been and, is likely to be an ever-changing industry. Only a few years ago, all you needed for a highly ranked website was a list of keywords and fresh content. Nowadays, you have to keep in mind smart link-building, social media signals, site speed, ever-changing Google algorithms,\u00a0 and, of course, the King&#133; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/new-seo-requirements\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,82],"tags":[65,92,209,142],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7553,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions\/7553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumrocket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}